Dr. Marta Kazymyra, from Bay Medical Clinic, will certainly participate in the Large Climb when it come to Sunday, March 20, a charity event that enhances your hard earned cash for leukemia research.
The Large Climb, now in its 30th year, is a hike up the Columbia Tower, the tallest building in the Pacific Northwest. The downtown Seattle building is the second-highest tower west of the Mississippi, and stands 69 stories tall, along with a lot more compared to 1,300 actions from the lobby to the roof.
The event enhances funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), which funds study for blood cancers and supplies education and sources for patients. Last year, the event brought in $2.9 million. Groups improve your hard earned cash via sponsorships and individual pledges, adore a walkathon yet even more vertical. Kazymyra will certainly be climbing along with her team, Larissa’s Crew.
“This will certainly be my fourth climb, and believe me, it doesn’t grab any kind of much easier along with age,” Kazymyra said. “In fact, it’s torture. However, it pales in comparison to just what cancer patients go through.”
Kazymyra very first got involved along with the charity after her friend Larissa Dhanani was diagnosed along with leukemia 5 years ago. Dhanani invested a lot more compared to 100 days at the Seattle Cancer Treatment Alliance at the University of Washington, undergoing intense chemotherapy treatments. Thanks in section to stem cells donated by her brother and an indomitable will certainly to live, Dhanani is now a five-year cancer survivor.
Over the last 4 years, Larissa’s Crew has actually raised a lot more compared to $100,000 for leukemia research, and joins the best 10 among this year’s largest fundraisers. This year, Kazymyra’s 9-year-old grandson, A.J. Telles, will certainly be participating for the very first time. Kazymyra said A.J. has actually currently raised $475, a lot more compared to half of his individual goal. The Group has actually specified their target at $50,000.
Leukemia study has actually come a lengthy method over the decades, thanks in section to volunteer companies adore LLS. According to Kazymyra, the survival fee for a kid along with leukemia in the 1960s was regarding 3 percent; today, it’s a lot more compared to 90 percent.
While the procedures have actually been encouraging, blood cancers are still prevalent; a person is diagnosed along with blood cancer every 3 moments in the U.S., and the illness impacts people of every one of ages.
Anyone curious about donating to Kazymyra’s Large Climb target can easily delivering a examine to Bay Medical Clinic at 377 C Street in Blaine, or visit bigclimb.org and try to find the Group Larissa’s Crew.
